16mm / 35mm combination microfiche (also known as fiche or microfilm jackets) approx. 150mm x 105mm in size is a hybrid container usually holding both photographs of documents A4/A3 sized and of engineering or architects drawings and plans. They can however contain other material such as cheques, notes, books or documents, one fiche usually contains 3 landscape 35mm frames and 3 ‘lanes’ or ‘rows’ of 16mm frames.
The layout can vary depending on the reduction used to photograph the original documents and also their original size.
DocuSense is able to convert your 16mm / 35mm combination microfiche to a digital format no matter what number of frames a fiche contains, we can also cope with varying sized frames on a single fiche. We use an optical enlargement technique during the digitisation process to enlarge the microfilm image back to it’s original document size for maximum clarity rather than directly scanning the microfilm.
Even if your microfilm doesn’t look like our examples, our equipment and operatives are flexible and can capture most things. So if you have any questions, you can message us using the form on the home or contact pages.
Input Film Specifications:
16mm / 35mm Combination Microfiche approx. 150mm x 105mm
Positive or Negative Polarity
Processing Specifications (as required):
Optical Enlargement to Original Document Size
Dynamic Image Density Compensation (on the fly scan quality correction)
Image Crop & Deskew (trimming and straightening)
Page Splitting
Output Specifications (as required):
Resolution: 200-600DPI
Image Type: Bitonal (Black & White, 1 bit), Greyscale (8 or 16 bit)
File Formats: TIFF, PDF, JPEG (lossless or compressed, other file formats available on request)